What About the One Praying? “Prayer that is Powerful & Effective”
James 5:16b-18, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.17 Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18 Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.”
1.Positional rightness: Jesus followers are those who have experienced God’s once-for-all ___________________through their acceptance of what Christ did for them by dying on the cross.
See John 13:1-12a
- Relational righteousness: Once we are in a saving relationship with God through Jesus, all we need is the __________, ongoing application of Jesus’ death on our behalf.
- Being relationally right with God has to do with our ________ ______________________________.
Isaiah 59:2, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.”
- Because unconfessed, unrepentant sin _________________ our communion with God.
See Psalm 66:17-18; Proverbs 28:9; Isaiah 1:15-17
- We must also seek to be ____________________________.
Matthew 5:23-24 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.”